Week of March 18, 2024 • Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center • Long Beach, CA
As the leader of CCSA, Myrna Castrejón has managed the membership organization representing California’s public charter schools since January 2019.
Prior to assuming the role of President and CEO, she served for nearly three years as the Founding Executive Director of Great Public Schools Now, an organization created in winter 2015. As the Executive Director, Myrna led Great Public Schools Now’s strategy to transform public education in Los Angeles by expanding high-quality public schools of diverse governance models in the areas most in need of support.
Before that assignment, Myrna worked at the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) in various key leadership roles since its founding in late 2003, leading the government affairs, local advocacy, quality, school development, and research and evaluation portfolios at various times. Her work with CCSA was preceded by a decade in school reform efforts in Texas and Los Angeles.
Her passion for this critical work comes from her background as a mother and an immigrant, and what she has seen is possible when commitment, opportunity and urgency meet to help families carve out better futures. In 2013, Myrna was named “Education Reformer to Watch” by the Walton Family Foundation. She is also a fellow of the Aspen Pahara Education Fellowship’s eighth class and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
